athletics
The verdict
“athletics” is uncommon French (frequency #52,498 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,498
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Athlétisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-athletics · athletics · French
athletics · rank #52,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,498
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assumait
Nearest frequency peer: assumait (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « athletics »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aslan
aslan
47,506 corpus weight
- assistances
assistances
47,505 corpus weight
- assumait
assumait
47,504 corpus weight
- athletics
athletics
47,503 corpus weight
- auburn
auburn
47,502 corpus weight
- auditifs
auditifs
47,501 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « athletics » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | athletics |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « athletics » en français
Rare enough to double-check
athletics is uncommon French at frequency #52,498 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for athletics, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is athletics, spelled A-T-H-L-E-T-I-C-S.
Definition
- 1Athlétisme.
- 2Exercices, sport.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how athletics appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Those who practice athletics fall into three classes, consisting of amateurs, professionals or semi-professionals.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "athletics", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).